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Churches, 1840

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LAYING the Foundation Stone of All Saints' Church, Liverpool

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 10 November 1840 · page 2

Sunday last having been appointed for the performance of this solemn ceremony, a considerable number of the Catholics of Sydney started for Liverpool at an early hour; and, understanding that…

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Ireland.—dublin, July 13. Union of the Presbyterian Synods

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 11 November 1840 · page 2

On Friday morning the arrangements were completed for the union into one body of the Synod of Ulster and the Sec[?]raion Synod, both numbering about seven hundred thousand…

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New Zealand Mission

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 24 November 1840 · page 2

"Extract from a teller from Bishop Pompallier. Vicar A postolic of New Zealand, dated 29th July, 1840. This extract which appeared in the…

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Church Extension.—take Care of Your Pockets!

Australasian Chronicle · Saturday 28 November 1840 · page 4

The great bubble of Church Extension has blown over, and the subject is unworthy of consideration, except that it displays a certain prevalence of immoral feeling, and a certainty of efforts in next…

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CHURCH versus the Bible Society

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1840 · page 2

Copy of a CirculaR letter addressed by the curate of the parish of Hungerford, Berks, to the parishioners— BROTHER PARISHIONERS, —A notice…

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Ecclesiastical Intelligence. Address Delivered by the Rev. Dr. Miley, In the Church of the Conception, Dublin, after the solemn thanksgiving offered by his Gruce the Archbishop for the escape of the Queen

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 1 December 1840 · page 2

"Nisi Dominus custodierit Civitatem, frustra vigilat qui coustodit cam."—Psalm 126. BELOVED BRETHREN—These words of the Almighty, by the mouth of David, who was himself a…

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Church Extension

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 3 December 1840 · page 2

Dear me! And so, notwithstanding the reams of paper which have overflowed the house, containing petitions for more churches, the pious Tories refused to make a huge. Sir Robert Inglis's…

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Church of Scotland

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 December 1840 · page 2

A very gratifying instance of Christian unanimity was communicated to us the other day, by a respected friend, to which we are glad to give publicity…

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Roman Catholic Hostility to the Bible

The Sydney Herald · Tuesday 22 December 1840 · page 2

I am not surprised that the Roman Catholics dislike the Bible, for very much the same reason that Ahab, king of Israel, disliked Micaiah, the prophet of the Lord, 1 Kings xxii., 8. It is hard…

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Advance Australia. Sydney Gazette. Thursday, December 31, 1840. New Churches

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 31 December 1840 · page 2

WITH much pleasure we announce the fact to our Church and S[?]ate brethren, that on Wednesday, 30th instant, the Lord Bishop of Australia laid the foundation stone of a new…

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Diagnosis of the Complaints of Churchmen and Dissenters

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 31 December 1840 · page 2

It is impossible to take up a newspaper without stumbling. upon discussions regarding the Church. In the editorial column, selected paragraphs, reports of public meetings, parliamentary debates,…

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